{"id":445776,"date":"2022-05-12T02:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-steele-dossiers-tawdry-absurd-and-fake-sources\/"},"modified":"2022-05-12T02:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:02:49","slug":"the-steele-dossiers-tawdry-absurd-and-fake-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-steele-dossiers-tawdry-absurd-and-fake-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Steele dossier&#8217;s tawdry, absurd and fake &#8216;sources&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3650d22f9c2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3650d22f9c2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-steele-dossiers-tawdry-absurd-and-fake-sources\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Steele_dossiers_tawdry_absurd_and_fake_%E2%80%98sources%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Steele dossier&#8217;s tawdry, absurd and fake &#8216;sources&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;The Steele dossier&#8217;s tawdry, absurd and fake &#8216;sources'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>We\u2019ve known for some time,<strong> <\/strong>thanks to the efforts of special counsel John Durham, that the Steele dossier was a Clinton-camp fabrication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now we know why the allegations it contained were so lurid, clumsy and (to anyone with an iota of sense) obviously fake.<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-surprising-backstory-of-how-the-steele-dossier-was-created-11652103582\">Wall Street Journal deep dive<\/a> reveals that Steele\u2019s central charges were based on idle gossip. Not from intel-community insiders with vast source networks. No: from a trio of unremarkable hacks with zero insight into covert affairs, whose only <em>real <\/em>connections were to Clinton World.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What an embarrassment for the countless reporters and TV personalities who talked up this tawdry nonsense from total outsiders as a democracy-saving scoop.\u00a0And for the FBI, which took Steele so seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The nonentities were: Dem stalwart and PR man Charles Dolan Jr.; Olga Galkina, paid flack of a Russian tech entrepreneur;<strong> <\/strong>and the primary \u201cresearcher\u201d on the dossier, Igor Danchenko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dolan \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent source for, among other fantasies, the tale of Trump cavorting with prostitutes at a Moscow hotel \u2014 was shocked that some of his chatter was published and reported on as fact. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that this is exposed as fake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>,\u201d he reportedly wrote mere <em>hours <\/em>after the dossier saw the light of day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Galkina, a school buddy of Danchenko\u2019s,<strong> <\/strong>came up with the totally bogus storylines about first Carter Page and then Michael Cohen serving as Donald Trump\u2019s Kremlin cutouts<strong> <\/strong>\u2014 and helped drag her employer, Aleksey Gubarev, into the muck by alleging with no real evidence that he and his company had aided Internet attacks against Hillary Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Igor-Danchenko.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Igor Danchenko passed on bogus information about Donald Trump to ex-spy Steele.\" class=\"wp-image-22233877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Igor-Danchenko.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Igor-Danchenko.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Igor-Danchenko.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Igor Danchenko passed on bogus information about Donald Trump to ex-spy Steele.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Danchenko, now under indictment for lying to the FBI, passed on these \u201cfindings\u201d orally to British ex-spy James Bond Christopher Steele (who\u2019d forbidden him to write notes).\u00a0Steele then ran with it all, as he (or the Fusion GPS sleaze merchants who\u2019d hired him, after Clinton lawyer Marc Elias hired <em>them<\/em>) claimed it all came from his supposed Russian sources or, alternately, sources close to Trump. (Steele doesn\u2019t speak Russian, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Top FBI officials used it as the basis for spying on the Trump campaign; intelligence-community bigs at least pretended to take it seriously. This, when Director of National Intelligence John Brennan had briefed President Barack Obama <em>in July 2016<\/em> of the Clinton campaign\u2019s intention to fake a Trump-Russia scandal. Did they never warn the FBI?<\/p>\n<p>Yet breathless scribes at The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, New York magazine and elsewhere hyped this nonsense for months, all taken in (most, willfully) by the equivalent of catty junior-high whisper campaigns. Some <em>still<\/em> can\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<p>Russiagate, in short, <em>was <\/em>the scandal of a generation \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and government one.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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